Online Education
Program in teaching and learning online
First course: What is virtual education? (2nd version)
This course will be delivered in Spanish. Nevertheless, bilingual on-line support will be available to all English speaking people wishing to take this course.
This introductory course will provide participants with the conceptual, theoretical and practical basis of online education.
Specific objectives
- To understand technological means applied in the online teaching-learning process.
- To familiarize participants with adult learning characteristics and to identify the needs of online learners.
- To learn about distance learning curriculum.
Course contents
Unit 1: Online education approaches
- Definition of e-learning
- Why online teaching?
- Difference between online and distance learning
- E-learning problems
- Learning communities
- Quality standardization in online education
Unit 2: Online education learning process
- Learning and constructivism
- Significant vs. repetitive learning
- Training methodologies
- The teaching-learning process
- Learning evaluation
Unit 3: Online curriculum
- Components of an online curriculum
- Design of an online curriculum
- Levels of design of an online curriculum
- Aspects of a didactic unit
Academic team
General Coordinator and Facilitator: Marta Graciela Cabeza
Academic Coordinator: Amelia Garrett
Technical Coordinator: Manuel F. Rebollo
Administrative Coordinator: Beatriz Herrera
Duration and cost
The course is 8 weeks long and it is expected that participants spend approximately 10 hours a week to successfully complete the course.
Duration: May 5 to June 27, 2008
Registration fee is USD 200 and entitles you to:
- All material (compulsory and additional) offered electronically (available to download) through the Virtual Campus.
- Permanent tutoring by high academic level professors throughout the course.
- Communication software for network learning.
- Technical support for the use of specific software and for the development of the course.
- Certificate of satisfactory completion of the course.
A CD with the content of the course will be available upon request for those who have difficulties accessing the Internet.
Register early and receive a 25% discount on tuition.
Registration now open
For further information, please contact Beatriz Herrera
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